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brooklynite

(93,873 posts)
Sun May 24, 2020, 12:55 AM May 2020

Jo Jorgensen Wins Libertarian Party Presidential Nomination

Source: Reason

In a day-long virtual meeting, after four ballots, the 1,035 delegates assembled for the Libertarian Party's online convention selected Jo Jorgensen as their presidential candidate.

She won with slightly over 51 percent of the vote (not every delegate voted in every round) on that fourth ballot, with 524 votes. Jacob Hornberger came in second, with nearly 28 percent of the vote. Vermin Supreme came in third, with 20 percent of the final vote.

Reason ran an interview with Jorgensen, a lecturer in psychology at Clemson who was the party's vice presidential candidate on a ticket with Harry Browne in 1996, on Thursday.

The party's voting procedure involved six candidates officially in nomination: Jorgensen, Jacob Hornberger, Vermin Supreme, John Monds, Judge James Gray, and Adam Kokesh. (Members could vote for other people if they wanted, or for none of the above, and many did.)

Read more: https://reason.com/2020/05/23/jo-jorgensen-wins-libertarian-party-presidential-nomination/



Not clear what happened to Lincoln Chafee...
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Jo Jorgensen Wins Libertarian Party Presidential Nomination (Original Post) brooklynite May 2020 OP
Vermin Supreme has developed a following. TexasTowelie May 2020 #1
Um, which debate? brooklynite May 2020 #5
No name candidates helming the top of the two biggest third parties will help Biden. Drunken Irishman May 2020 #2
Poor Justin Amash...tsk tsk dixiegrrrrl May 2020 #3
Thoughts and prayers! shotten99 May 2020 #4
Vermin Supreme sounds like a Trump alter ego rurallib May 2020 #6
Are the Russians backing their play this time around? Cryptoad May 2020 #7
They are all over Twitter with a hashtag #Imwithher kimbutgar May 2020 #8
Vermin Supreme came in third left-of-center2012 May 2020 #9
And they call communists or socialists utopian lonely bird May 2020 #10
Lincoln Chafee is the furthest thing from a Libertarian anyway Polybius May 2020 #11

TexasTowelie

(111,312 posts)
1. Vermin Supreme has developed a following.
Sun May 24, 2020, 01:02 AM
May 2020

Perhaps he will get the nod for VP so we can watch him in the debate? That could be amusing.

rurallib

(62,346 posts)
6. Vermin Supreme sounds like a Trump alter ego
Sun May 24, 2020, 08:10 AM
May 2020

or maybe the name of a trusted advisor. Probably what Stephen Miller's nickname is.

kimbutgar

(20,882 posts)
8. They are all over Twitter with a hashtag #Imwithher
Sun May 24, 2020, 10:12 AM
May 2020

Started trending at 1 am our time early morning Russian time. The bots are working overtime. I really wish twitter would put in code to lock out those bots.

lonely bird

(1,642 posts)
10. And they call communists or socialists utopian
Sun May 24, 2020, 12:23 PM
May 2020

There ain’t nothing more utopian than libertarianism. In actual practice it is the theology (yes, I deliberately used that word) of the spoiled four year old.

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